Acknowledgements -- List of tables and figures -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1 The concept of variation in linguistics -- 2 Goal of the study -- 3 Methodology for the investigation of variation -- 4 Organisation of the study -- Part 1: Theoretical foundations -- Chapter 2. State of the art -- 1 Texts: a view on text linguistics -- 2 Register: situating texts in the language system -- 3 Variation: comparing linguistic systems -- 3.1 Contrastive linguistics - -- 3.2 Lexico-grammatical variation across languages - -- 3.3 Register variation across languages - -- 4 Translation: influences from language mediation -- 4.1 Register analysis in translation studies - -- 4.2 Translation properties - -- 5 Envoi -- Chapter 3. On empirical methods in linguistics -- 1 Conceptual and methodological links between linguistics and social sciences -- 2 Empirical methods -- 2.1 Qualitative and quantitative approaches -- 2.2 From abstract concepts to observable features -- 3 Quality criteria for empirical research -- 4 Limits of cross-linguistic empirical research -- 5 Summary -- Chapter 4. Indicators of register classification -- 1 Field of discourse -- 1.1 Experiential domain -- 1.2 Goal orientation -- 2 Tenor of discourse -- 2.1 Agentive roles -- 2.2 Social role relationship -- 2.3 Social distance -- 2.4 Appraisal -- 3 Mode of discourse -- 3.1 Language role -- 3.2 Channel -- 3.3 Medium -- 4 Summary -- Part 2: Empirical analysis -- Chapter 5. Research design -- 1 The corpus -- 1.1 Design -- 1.2 Enrichment -- 2 Exploiting the corpus -- 2.1 Query tools -- 2.2 Statistics -- 3 Corpus contrasts -- 3.1 Overview of the contrasts -- 3.2 Relative register values -- 4 Hypotheses -- 4.1 Language-internal variation in originals -- 4.2 Cross-linguistic variation in originals -- 4.3 Variation between originals and translations -- 5 Summary.

Chapter 6. English intralingual register variation -- 1 Field of discourse -- 1.1 Experiential domain -- 1.2 Goal orientation -- 2 Tenor of discourse -- 2.1 Social role relationship -- 2.2 Social distance -- 3 Mode of discourse -- 3.1 Language role -- 3.2 Medium -- 4 Summary -- Chapter 7. German intralingual register variation -- 1 Field of discourse -- 1.1 Experiential domain -- 1.2 Goal orientation -- 2 Tenor of discourse -- 2.1 Social role relationship -- 2.2 Social distance -- 3 Mode of discourse -- 3.1 Language role -- 3.2 Medium -- 4 Summary -- Chapter 8. Cross-linguistic register comparison -- 1 Field of discourse -- 1.1 Experiential domain -- 1.2 Goal orientation -- 2 Tenor of discourse -- 2.1 Social role relationship -- 2.2 Social distance -- 3 Mode of discourse -- 3.1 Language role -- 3.2 Medium -- 4 Summary -- Chapter 9. Variation between originals and translations -- 1 Field of discourse -- 1.1 Experiential domain -- 1.2 Goal orientation -- 2 Tenor of discourse -- 2.1 Social role relationship -- 2.2 Social distance -- 3 Mode of discourse -- 3.1 Language role -- 3.2 Medium -- 4 Summary -- Chapter 10. Insights on register variation -- 1 Variation in the CroCo registers -- 1.1 Variation in the English registers -- 1.2 Variation in the German registers -- 1.3 Cross-linguistic variation -- 1.4 Variation between the originals and translations -- 2 The hypotheses revisited -- 3 Towards a model of register variation -- Chapter 11. Conclusions -- 1 Summary of the results -- 2 Evaluation of the methodology -- 3 Outlook -- References -- Appendix: Linguistic features in alphabetic order -- Index.